Triangle randomization for social network data anonymization

In order to protect privacy of social network participants, network graph data should be anonymised prior to its release. Most proposals in the literature aim to achieve $k$-anonymity under specific assumptions about the background information available to the attacker. Our method is based on random...

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Autores: Brankovic, Ljiljana, López Lorenzo, Ignacio, Miller, Mirka, Sebé Feixas, Francesc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/47736
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/47736
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anonymity
Privacy
Social network
Xarxes socials
Social networks
Descripción
Sumario:In order to protect privacy of social network participants, network graph data should be anonymised prior to its release. Most proposals in the literature aim to achieve $k$-anonymity under specific assumptions about the background information available to the attacker. Our method is based on randomizing the location of the triangles in the graph. We show that this simple method preserves the main structural parameters of the graph to a high extent, while providing a high re-identification confusion.